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* NeverMyFault: Trump is the most obvious carrier of this trait, but most people on the campaign also suffer from this issue. The end result is that, [[IdiotPlot despite constant screw ups,]] no one ever takes any responsibility.
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* NeverMyFault: Trump is the most obvious carrier of this trait, but most people on the campaign also suffer from this issue. The end result is that, [[IdiotPlot despite constant screw ups,]] ups, no one ever takes any responsibility.
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* NotSoDifferent: Trump to Ryan, in his version of a Hannibal Lecture.
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%% * NotSoDifferent: NotSoDifferentRemark: Trump to Ryan, in his version of a Hannibal Lecture.Lecture. %% This is a Administrivia/ZeroContextExample. Explain what Trump said, so it'd count as a valid example. %%
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''"Oh, yeah, I'm a monster, I thought I made that clear."''
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** When asked about his health after refusing to release his medical records, he said his "[[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial left arm checked out good.]]"
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** When asked about his health after refusing to release his medical records, he said his "[[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial left arm checked out good.]]"]]" Now, compare this to how Paul Ryan and Ben Carson referred to his physical:
-->'''Carson:''' avg human is 0.15% sodium. donald is 9%
-->'''Ryan:''' Jesus Christ.
-->'''Carson:''' he has a condition i've decided to call "mcdonald's elbow"
-->'''Carson:''' avg human is 0.15% sodium. donald is 9%
-->'''Ryan:''' Jesus Christ.
-->'''Carson:''' he has a condition i've decided to call "mcdonald's elbow"
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* StrangeSyntaxSpeaker: Aside from the characters written with a FunetikAksent, there are also those who have a consistently odd "speaking" style.
** ben carson is always written with all lower case sentences
** Julian Assange Always Speaks With All Of His Words Capitalized Like Proper Nouns!!!
** R. LEE ERMEY ONLY TALKS IN ALL CAPS!
** Guggo thehahaha Clown King ishaaHAHAHAhaha always laughahahahaing
** ben carson is always written with all lower case sentences
** Julian Assange Always Speaks With All Of His Words Capitalized Like Proper Nouns!!!
** R. LEE ERMEY ONLY TALKS IN ALL CAPS!
** Guggo thehahaha Clown King ishaaHAHAHAhaha always laughahahahaing
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* ThoseWackyNazis: Trump has a distressing number of incredibly loyal "alt-right" followers, who are, if not actually Nazis, then at least sympathetic to the white supremacist cause. Or, as Trump calls them, "[[RunningGag my precious little frogs.]]"
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* BigEater: Steve Bannon, who is almost always depicted eating some kind of junk food.
* BlackComedy: Very muchso.so, and made all the darker because [[FreakierThanFiction it's (partly) based on true events.]]
* BlackComedy: Very much
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* BunnyEarsLawyer: Subverted. While the Trump campaign has the "eccentric" part of this trope down flat, they struggle a lot with the "competence" element.
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* ImplausibleDeniability: Donald Trump can, and will, lie about almost anything, even if you have the video evidence to prove it.
** When asked about his health after refusing to release his medical records, he said his "[[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial left arm checked out good.]]"
** When asked about his health after refusing to release his medical records, he said his "[[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial left arm checked out good.]]"
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** And they're led by Guggo, King of Clowns, who [[AscendedExtra becomes a recurring character throughout the "series."]]
* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: Dr. Harold Bornstein, who is this crossed with DrFeelgood.
** Averted with Ben Carson. He's a perfectly capable neurosurgeon, he's just [[CloudCuckoolander a bit spacy]] and more concerned with [[TheMerch selling merchandise]] than anything else.
* NeverMyFault: Trump is the most obvious carrier of this trait, but most people on the campaign also suffer from this issue. The end result is that, [[IdiotPlot despite constant screw ups,]] no one ever takes any responsibility.
* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: Dr. Harold Bornstein, who is this crossed with DrFeelgood.
** Averted with Ben Carson. He's a perfectly capable neurosurgeon, he's just [[CloudCuckoolander a bit spacy]] and more concerned with [[TheMerch selling merchandise]] than anything else.
* NeverMyFault: Trump is the most obvious carrier of this trait, but most people on the campaign also suffer from this issue. The end result is that, [[IdiotPlot despite constant screw ups,]] no one ever takes any responsibility.
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* DisproportionateRetribution: Trump does ''not'' handle humiliation well. As an example, he discovered that there was one person alive who had witnessed him being unable to swim. To keep this fact from the public, Trump ordered "Hole" to ''assassinate him.''
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*** Rudy Giuliani is so hyped up on Trump fever that he actually claimed [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror there were no terrorist attacks by Islamic extremists in the US prior to the Obama Administration.]] And for the record, ''he was mayor of New York on September 11th, 2001.''
*** General Flynn has gone full GeneralRipper, and actually had to be talked down during one of Trump's security briefings.
*** Julian Assange, besides having a [[ItsAllAboutMe very inflated view of himself,]] can't see the problem with fighting for the freedom of information while simultaneously collaborating with Vladimir Putin and agents of the GRU/FSB.
*** General Flynn has gone full GeneralRipper, and actually had to be talked down during one of Trump's security briefings.
*** Julian Assange, besides having a [[ItsAllAboutMe very inflated view of himself,]] can't see the problem with fighting for the freedom of information while simultaneously collaborating with Vladimir Putin and agents of the GRU/FSB.
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*** Rudy Giuliani is so hyped up on Trump fever that he actually claimed [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror there were no terrorist attacks by Islamic extremists in the US prior to the Obama Administration.]] And for the record, ''he was mayor of New York on September 11th, 2001.''
'' Also, [[NoodleIncident he was once caught yelling at a pear.]]
*** General Flynn has gone full GeneralRipper, and actually had to be talked down during one of Trump's securitybriefings.
briefings.[[note]]This is both true in RealLife, and in the "security briefings" at Sbarro's in the ''Trump Leaks'' world.[[/note]]
*** Julian Assange, besides having a [[ItsAllAboutMe very inflated view of himself,]]can't see the problem with fighting for the freedom of information speaks in all caps and has let Roger Stone run WikiLeaks while simultaneously collaborating with Vladimir Putin and agents of the GRU/FSB.he's hiding from prosecution for multiple rape charges.
*** General Flynn has gone full GeneralRipper, and actually had to be talked down during one of Trump's security
*** Julian Assange, besides having a [[ItsAllAboutMe very inflated view of himself,]]
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* TheCracker: Julian Assange.Assange, head of WikiLeaks and apparent go-between for the Trump Campaign and Russia's intelligence agencies.
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* ProudToBeAGeek: Paul Ryan is ''very'' sad to see the end of ''Series/{{Grimm}}''.
* PuppeteerParasite: Roger Ailes can take possession of any person, or any reasonably intact dead body, and control it through unknown means.
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* ProudToBeAGeek: Paul Ryan is ''very'' sad MonsterClown: In 2016, there happened to see the end be a rash of ''Series/{{Grimm}}''.
* PuppeteerParasite: Roger Ailes can take possessionpeople dressing up as evil clowns, trying to scare people. As it turns out, [[InsaneTrollLogic this was supposed to be a part of any person, or any reasonably intact dead body, and control it through unknown means.Trump's campaign strategy.]]
-->'''Conway:''' We have one field office in Florida but fifty states' worth of clown gangs.
-->'''Ryan:''' What are they for?
-->'''Conway:''' He just says "the end."
* PuppeteerParasite: Roger Ailes can take possession
-->'''Conway:''' We have one field office in Florida but fifty states' worth of clown gangs.
-->'''Ryan:''' What are they for?
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* PuppeteerParasite: Roger Ailes can take possession of any person, or any reasonably intact dead body, and control it through unknown means.
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The tweets have been collected into (thus far) four Storify threads. You can find them here: [[https://storify.com/michaeljweigel/trump-ryan-a-twitter-saga Part One]], [[https://storify.com/michaeljweigel/trump-ryan-christie-the-saga-continues Part Two]], [[https://storify.com/michaeljweigel/trump-files-part-three Part Three]], and [[https://storify.com/michaeljweigel/trump-leaks-4 Part Four]].
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* {{Narcissist}}: Trump is [[LackOfEmpathy basically incapable of showing compassion or empathy]], or even faking basic sympathy for the plight of others. The closest he's ever come is sadness at the idea of [[spoiler: sending Hole to get killed by Ann Coulter,]] and even that comes across more like he had to flush his goldfish down the toilet.
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* {{Narcissist}}: Trump is [[LackOfEmpathy basically incapable of showing compassion or empathy]], or even faking basic sympathy for the plight of others. The closest he's ever come is sadness at the idea of [[spoiler: sending Hole Chris Christie to get killed by Ann Coulter,]] and even that comes across more like he had to flush his goldfish down the toilet.
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* CloudCuckoolander: Trump seems to have a ''very'' different idea of what constitutes good politics, compared to most people. If he ever says the phrase "tweeted it," expect StunnedSilence from anyone in earshot.
** Many of his subordinates/surrogates also qualify, for various reasons.
*** Ben Carson seems heavily sedated most of the time, and is primarily concerned with selling [[TheMerch his merch.]]
*** Rudy Giuliani is so hyped up on Trump fever that he actually claimed [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror there were no terrorist attacks by Islamic extremists in the US prior to the Obama Administration.]] And for the record, ''he was mayor of New York on September 11th, 2001.''
*** General Flynn has gone full GeneralRipper, and actually had to be talked down during one of Trump's security briefings.
*** Julian Assange, besides having a [[ItsAllAboutMe very inflated view of himself,]] can't see the problem with fighting for the freedom of information while simultaneously collaborating with Vladimir Putin and agents of the GRU/FSB.
** Many of his subordinates/surrogates also qualify, for various reasons.
*** Ben Carson seems heavily sedated most of the time, and is primarily concerned with selling [[TheMerch his merch.]]
*** Rudy Giuliani is so hyped up on Trump fever that he actually claimed [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror there were no terrorist attacks by Islamic extremists in the US prior to the Obama Administration.]] And for the record, ''he was mayor of New York on September 11th, 2001.''
*** General Flynn has gone full GeneralRipper, and actually had to be talked down during one of Trump's security briefings.
*** Julian Assange, besides having a [[ItsAllAboutMe very inflated view of himself,]] can't see the problem with fighting for the freedom of information while simultaneously collaborating with Vladimir Putin and agents of the GRU/FSB.
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* DeadpanSnarker: While everyone gets their shots in, the two biggest contenders are Hillary Clinton (who never misses an opportunity to mock her opponent) and John Boener (who's just glad that Trump isn't his problem).
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* TheMole: [[spoiler: Chris "Hole" Christie]], unsurprisingly, starts leaking info to the Clinton campaign, in the hopes that she can rescue him from the fallout of the Trump campaign.
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* GeneralRipper: General Tommy Flynn, who sat in with Trump on his "security briefings."[[note]]Lunches at Sbarro's with R. Lee Ermey.[[/note]]
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* NotSoDifferent: Trump to Ryan, in his version of a Hannibal Lecture.
-->'''Trump:''' Ailes came to you. I guess your Zika games clinched it: you're on the team.
-->'''Ryan:''' I'm not like you.
-->'''Trump:''' Dark beast says different!
-->'''Trump:''' Ailes came to you. I guess your Zika games clinched it: you're on the team.
-->'''Ryan:''' I'm not like you.
-->'''Trump:''' Dark beast says different!
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* ProudToBeAGeek: Paul Ryan is ''very'' sad to see the end of ''Series/{{Grimm}}''.
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* OneOfUs: Paul Ryan is ''very'' sad to see the end of ''Series/{{Grimm}}''.
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* BrownNote: The Ailesong.
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* BrownNote: The Ailesong.Ailesong, the maddening melody anyone who hosts Roger Ailes hears, which tells them how to hasten the end of days.
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* NoIndoorVoice: Creator/RLeeHermey, who is brought in to do Trump's "classified CIA briefings."[[note]]Actually just Chris Christie driving Trump down to a Sbarro's to have random facts shouted at him.[[/note]]
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* NoIndoorVoice: Creator/RLeeHermey, Creator/RLeeErmey, who is brought in to do Trump's "classified CIA briefings."[[note]]Actually just Chris Christie driving Trump down to a Sbarro's to have random facts shouted at him.[[/note]]
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* AchievementsInIgnorance: Trump winning the Republican nomination itself, managing to get in the running for the highest office in the land despite a dearth of political experience, credibility, or competence.
* ArcWords: "The Age of Man is over. It is the Fire's turn, now."
* BlackComedy: Very much so.
* BrownNote: The Ailesong.
* BrutalHonesty: Subverted. While Trump lies with impunity, he ''believes'' he's always telling the truth- or is, at least, able to convince himself that he's being honest in the moment. When he is honest, however, it is almost always brutally so.
* BrownNote: The Ailesong.
* BrutalHonesty: Subverted. While Trump lies with impunity, he ''believes'' he's always telling the truth- or is, at least, able to convince himself that he's being honest in the moment. When he is honest, however, it is almost always brutally so.
* DeadBabyComedy: With literal dead babies, when it comes to the Zika crisis.
* NoIndoorVoice: Creator/RLeeHermey, who is brought in to do Trump's "classified CIA briefings."[[note]]Actually just Chris Christie driving Trump down to a Sbarro's to have random facts shouted at him.[[/note]]
** He's also not as reasonable as he appears. Although it's hard not to feel bad for him basically being forced to support someone he can't stand, he ''is'' still the kind of person who willingly associates with white supremacists, and once killed a bill to fund Zika research by inserting a provision that would defund Planned Parenthood.
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* VillainProtagonist: Although essentially the protagonist of tweets, Trump is ''not'' portrayed sympathetically in the slightest.
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* TruthInTelevision: ''Way'' too many of the ridiculous things that happen in ''Trump Leaks'' are based off of RealLife events.
* VillainProtagonist: Although essentially the protagonist of the tweets, Trump is ''not'' portrayedsympathetically in the slightest.sympathetically, generally speaking.
* VillainProtagonist: Although essentially the protagonist of the tweets, Trump is ''not'' portrayed
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Trump manages to have occasional flashes of brilliance, almost always [[GoMadFromTheRevelation things that drive others to despair or madness.]]
** For example: he loves reminding Paul Ryan that, however awful Trump may seem, ''he'' was the one chosen in the Republican Primary, by a plurality of the party's voters. Horrifying as that may be to Ryan, Trump voters ''are'' Republican voters.
** For example: he loves reminding Paul Ryan that, however awful Trump may seem, ''he'' was the one chosen in the Republican Primary, by a plurality of the party's voters. Horrifying as that may be to Ryan, Trump voters ''are'' Republican voters.
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* ForTheEvulz: A major motivator behind Trump's actions, along with his [[Pride ego issues.]] Also the primary motivation of Roger Ailes.
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* ForTheEvulz: A major motivator behind Trump's actions, along with his [[Pride [[{{Pride}} ego issues.]] Also the primary motivation of Roger Ailes.
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* FunetikAccent: Used for Melania Trump, Rudy Giuliani and, to an extent, Julian Assange (who capitalizes every word, for whatever reason).
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* FunetikAccent: FunetikAksent: Used for Melania Trump, Rudy Giuliani and, to an extent, Julian Assange (who capitalizes every word, for whatever reason).
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Various major political figures make appearances, including [[VillainProtagonist Donald Trump]] himself, Speaker of the House [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure Paul Ryan]], New Jersey Governor [[BeleaguredAssistant Chris]] [[EmbarrassingNickname "Hole"]] [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone Christie]], Fox News Founder and (Ex-)CEO [[EldritchAbomination Roger Ailes]], and many more.
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Various major political figures make appearances, including [[VillainProtagonist Donald Trump]] himself, Speaker of the House [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure Paul Ryan]], New Jersey Governor [[BeleaguredAssistant [[BeleagueredAssistant Chris]] [[EmbarrassingNickname "Hole"]] [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone Christie]], Fox News Founder and (Ex-)CEO [[EldritchAbomination Roger Ailes]], and many more.
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* BeleaguredAssistant: Almost everyone who works under Donald Trump qualifies, but special attention must be given to Chris "Hole" Christie and campaign manager Kelly Anne Conway.
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''"Oh, yeah, I'm a monster, I thought I made that clear."''
-> Creator/DonaldTrump
''Trump Leaks'' is a collected series of Tweets made by Owen Ellickson, detailing the (fake) secret communications of the Donald Trump presidential campaign. The basic idea is to try explaining the insane events coming out of the Trump campaign, because [[FreakierThanFiction it's not like it makes sense to anyone else.]]
Various major political figures make appearances, including [[VillainProtagonist Donald Trump]] himself, Speaker of the House [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure Paul Ryan]], New Jersey Governor [[BeleaguredAssistant Chris]] [[EmbarrassingNickname "Hole"]] [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone Christie]], Fox News Founder and (Ex-)CEO [[EldritchAbomination Roger Ailes]], and many more.
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!!Tropes that appear in this work include:
* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler: After spending a rather significant amount of time using Kelly Anne Conway as his host, Roger Ailes is finally rejected by her and beat to death with a clipboard.]]
* BadIsGoodAndGoodIsBad: Seems to be how Trump views things. For example, he hates that Mike Pence seems so bland, until he finds out Pence did stuff like [[MoralEventHorizon sign a law that forced women to hold funerals for their miscarriages.]]
-->'''Trump:''' There's something broken inside you and I respect that.
* BeleaguredAssistant: Almost everyone who works under Donald Trump qualifies, but special attention must be given to Chris "Hole" Christie and campaign manager Kelly Anne Conway.
** Mike Pence may also count, even though he doesn't directly serve under Trump.
* BigApplesauce: Trump is a native of Queens, and tends to bring a lot of New Yorker-isms along with him. The same goes for the former mayor of New York, Rudy Giuliani.
* BystanderSyndrome: Deliberately invoke by John Boener, the former Speaker of the House, who is quite happily living in retirement while Trump becomes everyone else's problem. In fact, he regularly speaks to the ''current'' Speaker, Paul Ryan, to either advise Ryan on how to deal with Trump, or to brag about how great life is outside of politics.
* CastFullOfCrazy: Anyone who doesn't start out nuts eventually becomes that way from prolonged exposure to Trump.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Roger Ailes, obviously, but Steve Bannon and Paul Manafort also qualify.
* TheCracker: Julian Assange.
* DealWithTheDevil: Paul Ryan seems to treat his alliance with Trump this way, and one that was forced upon him by the primary process to boot.
* EldritchAbomination: Roger Ailes, who, when [[PuppeteerParasite not inside a host]], takes the form of an "inside out squid" covered in teeth. He speaks only in bizarre sound effects, and heralds the end of the Age of Man. [[CrossesTheLineTwice Donald Trump goes to him for advice on debate prep and campaign strategy.]]
* EmbarrassingNickname: Trump almost never refers to Chris Christie as anything other than "Hole," and at one point has him legally change his name to that, [[ForTheEvulz just because it's funny.]]
** Ironically, Trump himself gets this later on, as Kelly Anne Conway grows more and more jaded- eventually, she refuses to refer to Trump as anything other than "it."
* ForTheEvulz: A major motivator behind Trump's actions, along with his [[Pride ego issues.]] Also the primary motivation of Roger Ailes.
* FunetikAccent: Used for Melania Trump, Rudy Giuliani and, to an extent, Julian Assange (who capitalizes every word, for whatever reason).
* HumiliationConga: Trump Leaks are basically one long, self-inflicted Humiliation Conga for Trump and anyone else unfortunate enough to be associated with him.
* HuntingTheMostDangerousGame: Ann Coulter gets angry after Trump betrays her by switching his position on immigration (the day her pro-Trump hagiography came out, no less), and demands she bring him someone to hunt. [[spoiler: Of course, the person he offers up is Hole, who Trump admits he'll miss having around to abuse.]]
** Unfortunately for Ann, [[spoiler: Christie realizes something suspicious is going on and manages to get out.]] So how does Trump fix the situation? [[spoiler: He sends Roger Ailes instead.]]
*** And this, temporarily, results in [[spoiler: Ann Coulter becoming Roger Ailes' host.]]
* ItsAllAboutMe: Is it really that surprising that a man who puts his name in giant gold letters on all of his buildings might have a big ego?
* JerkJock: Many of Trump's behaviors are basically this, put in the body of a 70-year old man.
* {{Narcissist}}: Trump is [[LackOfEmpathy basically incapable of showing compassion or empathy]], or even faking basic sympathy for the plight of others. The closest he's ever come is sadness at the idea of [[spoiler: sending Hole to get killed by Ann Coulter,]] and even that comes across more like he had to flush his goldfish down the toilet.
* PuppeteerParasite: Roger Ailes can take possession of any person, or any reasonably intact dead body, and control it through unknown means.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Paul Ryan ''tries'' to be this, but finds himself unable to contain Trump's wild behavior.
* TheSociopath: Almost everyone on the Trump Campaign, with the exception of Kelly Ann Conway, comes across like this.
* StarfishLanguage: Roger Ailes, whenever he's not in a host. People can still generally understand him, however.
* StrawMisogynist: Between his sexist comments, his bragging about sexually assaulting women, and the growing number of women who have accused him of sexually assaulting them, Trump fits into this category in RealLife. When exaggerated in Trump Leaks, he becomes a full-on HeManWomanHater.
** Many of his subordinates and surrogates, particularly Roger Ailes, Steve Bannon, Rudy Giuliani and Newt Gingrich, all fall into this category as well.
* StunnedSilence: A common reaction to anything Donald Trump says or does.
** Managed to cause six straight lines of StunnedSilence after the infamous [[spoiler: 3 AM tweets about Alicia Machado.]]
* TooDumbToLive: Or Too Dumb To Run a Successful Campaign, in any event.
* VillainProtagonist: Although essentially the protagonist of tweets, Trump is ''not'' portrayed sympathetically in the slightest.
-> Creator/DonaldTrump
''Trump Leaks'' is a collected series of Tweets made by Owen Ellickson, detailing the (fake) secret communications of the Donald Trump presidential campaign. The basic idea is to try explaining the insane events coming out of the Trump campaign, because [[FreakierThanFiction it's not like it makes sense to anyone else.]]
Various major political figures make appearances, including [[VillainProtagonist Donald Trump]] himself, Speaker of the House [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure Paul Ryan]], New Jersey Governor [[BeleaguredAssistant Chris]] [[EmbarrassingNickname "Hole"]] [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone Christie]], Fox News Founder and (Ex-)CEO [[EldritchAbomination Roger Ailes]], and many more.
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!!Tropes that appear in this work include:
* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler: After spending a rather significant amount of time using Kelly Anne Conway as his host, Roger Ailes is finally rejected by her and beat to death with a clipboard.]]
* BadIsGoodAndGoodIsBad: Seems to be how Trump views things. For example, he hates that Mike Pence seems so bland, until he finds out Pence did stuff like [[MoralEventHorizon sign a law that forced women to hold funerals for their miscarriages.]]
-->'''Trump:''' There's something broken inside you and I respect that.
* BeleaguredAssistant: Almost everyone who works under Donald Trump qualifies, but special attention must be given to Chris "Hole" Christie and campaign manager Kelly Anne Conway.
** Mike Pence may also count, even though he doesn't directly serve under Trump.
* BigApplesauce: Trump is a native of Queens, and tends to bring a lot of New Yorker-isms along with him. The same goes for the former mayor of New York, Rudy Giuliani.
* BystanderSyndrome: Deliberately invoke by John Boener, the former Speaker of the House, who is quite happily living in retirement while Trump becomes everyone else's problem. In fact, he regularly speaks to the ''current'' Speaker, Paul Ryan, to either advise Ryan on how to deal with Trump, or to brag about how great life is outside of politics.
* CastFullOfCrazy: Anyone who doesn't start out nuts eventually becomes that way from prolonged exposure to Trump.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Roger Ailes, obviously, but Steve Bannon and Paul Manafort also qualify.
* TheCracker: Julian Assange.
* DealWithTheDevil: Paul Ryan seems to treat his alliance with Trump this way, and one that was forced upon him by the primary process to boot.
* EldritchAbomination: Roger Ailes, who, when [[PuppeteerParasite not inside a host]], takes the form of an "inside out squid" covered in teeth. He speaks only in bizarre sound effects, and heralds the end of the Age of Man. [[CrossesTheLineTwice Donald Trump goes to him for advice on debate prep and campaign strategy.]]
* EmbarrassingNickname: Trump almost never refers to Chris Christie as anything other than "Hole," and at one point has him legally change his name to that, [[ForTheEvulz just because it's funny.]]
** Ironically, Trump himself gets this later on, as Kelly Anne Conway grows more and more jaded- eventually, she refuses to refer to Trump as anything other than "it."
* ForTheEvulz: A major motivator behind Trump's actions, along with his [[Pride ego issues.]] Also the primary motivation of Roger Ailes.
* FunetikAccent: Used for Melania Trump, Rudy Giuliani and, to an extent, Julian Assange (who capitalizes every word, for whatever reason).
* HumiliationConga: Trump Leaks are basically one long, self-inflicted Humiliation Conga for Trump and anyone else unfortunate enough to be associated with him.
* HuntingTheMostDangerousGame: Ann Coulter gets angry after Trump betrays her by switching his position on immigration (the day her pro-Trump hagiography came out, no less), and demands she bring him someone to hunt. [[spoiler: Of course, the person he offers up is Hole, who Trump admits he'll miss having around to abuse.]]
** Unfortunately for Ann, [[spoiler: Christie realizes something suspicious is going on and manages to get out.]] So how does Trump fix the situation? [[spoiler: He sends Roger Ailes instead.]]
*** And this, temporarily, results in [[spoiler: Ann Coulter becoming Roger Ailes' host.]]
* ItsAllAboutMe: Is it really that surprising that a man who puts his name in giant gold letters on all of his buildings might have a big ego?
* JerkJock: Many of Trump's behaviors are basically this, put in the body of a 70-year old man.
* {{Narcissist}}: Trump is [[LackOfEmpathy basically incapable of showing compassion or empathy]], or even faking basic sympathy for the plight of others. The closest he's ever come is sadness at the idea of [[spoiler: sending Hole to get killed by Ann Coulter,]] and even that comes across more like he had to flush his goldfish down the toilet.
* PuppeteerParasite: Roger Ailes can take possession of any person, or any reasonably intact dead body, and control it through unknown means.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Paul Ryan ''tries'' to be this, but finds himself unable to contain Trump's wild behavior.
* TheSociopath: Almost everyone on the Trump Campaign, with the exception of Kelly Ann Conway, comes across like this.
* StarfishLanguage: Roger Ailes, whenever he's not in a host. People can still generally understand him, however.
* StrawMisogynist: Between his sexist comments, his bragging about sexually assaulting women, and the growing number of women who have accused him of sexually assaulting them, Trump fits into this category in RealLife. When exaggerated in Trump Leaks, he becomes a full-on HeManWomanHater.
** Many of his subordinates and surrogates, particularly Roger Ailes, Steve Bannon, Rudy Giuliani and Newt Gingrich, all fall into this category as well.
* StunnedSilence: A common reaction to anything Donald Trump says or does.
** Managed to cause six straight lines of StunnedSilence after the infamous [[spoiler: 3 AM tweets about Alicia Machado.]]
* TooDumbToLive: Or Too Dumb To Run a Successful Campaign, in any event.
* VillainProtagonist: Although essentially the protagonist of tweets, Trump is ''not'' portrayed sympathetically in the slightest.
