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* LuredIntoATrap: In the "Mullerman" sketch, Robert Mueller lured in Donald Trump and his staff to him by putting up a highway sign that says "Donald J. Trump State Park" into an empty forest while they were going to a donor party. Only Trump overlooks the fact that this so-called state park was never put on the map. Although Pence and the rest of his staff advised against it, Trump insisted they go anyways.

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* LuredIntoATrap: In the "Mullerman" sketch, Robert Mueller lured in Donald Trump and his staff to him by putting up a highway sign that says "Donald J. Trump State Park" into an empty forest while they were going to a donor party. Only Trump [[TooDumbToLive overlooks the fact that this so-called state park was never put on the map.map]]. Although Pence and the rest of his staff advised against it, Trump insisted they go anyways.
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* LuredIntoATrap: In the "Mullerman" sketch, Robert Mueller lured in Donald Trump and his staff to him by putting up a highway sign that says "Donald J. Trump State Park" into an empty forest while they were going to a donor party. Although Pence and the rest of his staff advised against it, Trump insisted they go anyways.

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* LuredIntoATrap: In the "Mullerman" sketch, Robert Mueller lured in Donald Trump and his staff to him by putting up a highway sign that says "Donald J. Trump State Park" into an empty forest while they were going to a donor party. Only Trump overlooks the fact that this so-called state park was never put on the map. Although Pence and the rest of his staff advised against it, Trump insisted they go anyways.
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* LuredIntoATrap: In the "Mullerman" sketch, Robert Mueller lured in Donald Trump and his staff to him by putting up a highway sign that says "Donald J. Trump State Park" into an empty forest while they were going to a donor party. Although Pence and the rest of his staff advised against it, Trump insisted they go anyways.
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* GreaterScopeVillain: You can interpret that Vladimir Putin is this to ''The President Show'', since he's the reason Donald Trump became President of the United States.
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* ManChild: Trump is indubitably on the same brain level as children. He is so childish that Mike Pence clearly "fathers" him and Trump doesn't notice it. For example in the "Deck the Malls" sketch when Trump is getting tired of walking around the shopping mall:

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* ManChild: Trump is indubitably on the same brain level as children, except he has worse temper and is more aggressive than most children. He is so childish that Mike Pence clearly "fathers" him and Trump doesn't notice it. For example in the "Deck the Malls" sketch when Trump is getting tired of walking around the shopping mall:
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* DissonantLaughter: Don Jr. is laughing his head off in ''every'' scene he appears.

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* DissonantLaughter: Don Jr. is laughing his head off in ''every'' scene he appears. It's possible he could be a katagelasticist.

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-->"I ''was'' the president. Can you believe it? ...Bye-bye."

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-->"I ''was'' the president.was ''the president''. Can you believe it? ...Bye-bye."



* ForWantOfANail: In the Mockumentary, set in the future, the series of events that leads to Trump being removed from office and committed to a seniors center all starts with a victory for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a real-life socialist Latina.



* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Trump. For example, during the ChristmasEpisode, he claims that the only holidays before it were Kwanzaa and Toyotathon.

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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Trump. For example, during the ChristmasEpisode, he claims that the only holidays before it were Kwanzaa and Toyotathon.Toyotathon (which is a vehicle sale).



* {{Telethon}}: The format of a special, "Make America Great-A-Thon". What they're actually funding money for, however, changes with Trump's whims.

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* {{Telethon}}: The format of a special, "Make America Great-A-Thon".Great A-thon". What they're actually funding money for, however, changes with Trump's whims.
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* FiveStagesOfGrief: Trump goes through this in the "It's A Tremendous Life" segment of the Christmas special in which he is in a parallel universe where his father wasn't rich, and so Trump is throwing tantrums out of anger, crying out of despair and freely rampaging around the streets causing mayhem and committing crimes.

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* FiveStagesOfGrief: Trump goes through this in the "It's A Tremendous Life" segment of the Christmas special in which he is in a parallel universe where his father wasn't rich, and so Trump is throwing tantrums out of anger, crying out of despair and freely rampaging around the streets causing mayhem and committing crimes.crimes, and lastly he cries out of despair after the police arrest him for allegedly attempting sexual assault.

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''The President Show'' is a series on Creator/ComedyCentral, created by Anthony Atamanuik. Its first season consisted of twenty-one episodes from April 27, 2017, to November 2, 2017, with an hour-long ChristmasSpecial on November 30. There is no indication of a second season coming.

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''The President Show'' is a series on Creator/ComedyCentral, created by Anthony Atamanuik. Its first season consisted of twenty-one episodes from April 27, 2017, to November 2, 2017, with an hour-long ChristmasSpecial on November 30. There is no indication of a second season coming.coming, though there was a fake {{Telethon}} and a {{Mockumentary}} special the following year.


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** In the {{Mockumentary}}, the final scene is a video Trump recorded to air after his death, which ends with a variation on every episode's opening and closing lines.
-->"I ''was'' the president. Can you believe it? ...Bye-bye."


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* {{Mockumentary}}: "A President Show Documentary: The Fall of Donald Trump", first airing before the 2018 midterm elections. Set in the year 2030, it covers Trump becoming both the Republican ''and'' Democratic nominee in 2020, [[TakeAThirdOption losing the election to Green Party candidate Jill Stein]], having to be forcibly removed from the White House after refusing to step down, attempting to return to television, and vanishing from the public eye after being committed to the senior center that Mar-A-Largo gets converted into, all while his former council make new lives for themselves (literally, in the case of Mike/"Richard" Pence).
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* FiveStagesOfGrief: Trump goes through this in the "It's A Tremendous Life" segment of the Christmas special in which he is in a parallel universe where his father wasn't rich, and so Trump resorts to anger, depression and freely rampaging around the streets causing mayhem and committing crimes.

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* FiveStagesOfGrief: Trump goes through this in the "It's A Tremendous Life" segment of the Christmas special in which he is in a parallel universe where his father wasn't rich, and so Trump resorts to is throwing tantrums out of anger, depression crying out of despair and freely rampaging around the streets causing mayhem and committing crimes.
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* FiveStagesOfGrief: Trump goes through this in the "It's A Tremendous Life" segment of the Christmas special in which he is in a parallel universe where his father wasn't rich, and so Trump resorts to anger, depression and freely rampaging around the streets causing mayhem and committing crimes.
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''The President Show'' is a series on Creator/ComedyCentral, created by Anthony Atamanuik. Its first season consisted of twenty-one episodes from April 27, 2017, to November 2, 2017, with an hour-long ChristmasSpecial on November 30.

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''The President Show'' is a series on Creator/ComedyCentral, created by Anthony Atamanuik. Its first season consisted of twenty-one episodes from April 27, 2017, to November 2, 2017, with an hour-long ChristmasSpecial on November 30.
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Several sketches are available to watch for free because they get posted on Comedy Central's YouTube channel, while the talk show bits do not get posted.

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Several sketches are available to watch for free because they get posted on Comedy Central's website and on their YouTube channel, while the talk show bits do not get posted.

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* JerkassHasAPoint: In the gun debate part of the Make America Great A-thon, Trump admits that he wants to win over both the college students supporting gun control and the NRA gun rights advocates. While of course being afflicted by short attention span and not focusing on addressing the gun issue (only caring about getting approval from both of them), when both sides finally meet each other Trump admits that he can't be the solution to everyone's problems and so he lets the two sides amiably ruminate over solutions of their own.



* NightmareSequence: In the Christmas special, Bernie Sanders forces Trump to see an alternate reality of himself in which his father was never rich and so never gave Donald that famous $1 million loan. Donald is now a broke and petty coin thief ''in his 70s''. And because most people these days have cell phones, guess how much luck he's had robbing public telephones.



* RedOniBlueOni: The impulsive, short-tempered Trump is the Red, and the even-tempered StraightMan Pence is the Blue. Their ties, coincidentally, match their colors.

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* RedOniBlueOni: The impulsive, short-tempered Trump is the Red, and the even-tempered StraightMan Pence is the Blue. Their ties, coincidentally, match their colors. Bernie Sanders sometimes guest stars as another Blue Oni.
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* HurricaneOfPuns: In the Make America Great A-thon special, Trump claims he has Russian contacts (eye contacts to be precise) and that his contacts help him evade tacks on the floor, so therefore he does "tacks evasion".

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* HurricaneOfPuns: In the Make America Great A-thon special, Trump claims he has Russian contacts (eye contacts to be precise) and that his contacts help him evade tacks on the floor, floor and chop down trees, so therefore he does "tacks evasion".evasion" and "tree-sin".
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* HurricaneOfPuns: In the Make America Great A-thon special, Trump claims he has Russian contacts (eye contacts to be precise) and that his contacts help him evade tacks on the floor, so therefore he does "tacks evasion".
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* ButtMonkey: Mike Pence is always getting abused in many ways by Trump. Could double as a TakeThat towards the real life Pence for agreeing to be Vice President to a childish, irresponsible megalomaniac.

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* ButtMonkey: Mike Pence is always getting abused in many ways by Trump. Could double as a TakeThat towards the real life Pence for agreeing to be Vice President to a childish, irresponsible selfish megalomaniac.
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** Trump seems to hate women, not just Hillary Clinton. He complains they ruin everything from ''[[Film/Ghostbusters2016 Ghostbusters]]'' to his health care bill and his son Eric pointed out that he hates ''any'' woman who won't sleep with him or who isn't very attractive.

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** Trump seems to hate women, not just Hillary Clinton. He complains they ruin everything from ''[[Film/Ghostbusters2016 Ghostbusters]]'' to his health care bill and his son Eric Don Jr. pointed out that he hates ''any'' woman who won't sleep with him or who isn't very attractive.
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* ButtMonkey: Mike Pence is always getting abused in many ways by Trump.

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* ButtMonkey: Mike Pence is always getting abused in many ways by Trump. Could double as a TakeThat towards the real life Pence for agreeing to be Vice President to a childish, irresponsible megalomaniac.
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* AbusiveParents: Trump tries to be as difficult and aggressive of a father towards Don Jr. as possible to scare him away. It doesn't really work, it only encourages Don Jr. to keep annoying his dad.
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* ParentalIncest: Trump has very strong, sexual feelings towards his daughter Ivanka.
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* DissonantLaughter: Don Jr. is laughing his head off in ''every'' scene he appears.


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* StrawHypocrite: Don Jr. jokingly calls his sister Ivanka one for denouncing sexual harassment but endorsing their father, who Don Jr. designates the "President of Sexual Harassment".
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* SayingTooMuch: Eric Trump tends to speak the truth far more often than President Trump would prefer.

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* SayingTooMuch: Eric Trump Don Jr. tends to speak the truth far more often than President Trump would prefer.



* WellDoneSonGuy: Eric Trump knows he's not his father's favorite child, but still tries to make him proud.

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* WellDoneSonGuy: Eric Trump Don Jr. knows he's not his father's favorite child, but still tries to make him proud.
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* ElvisImpersonator: Trump's musical number "Porn Star" and fashion attire in the Make America Great A-thon special parody Elvis.
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* ConspiracyTheorist: Steve Bannon, who spews wild conspiracies over the U.S. government being infested with witches or albino pelican people about to rise from Atlantis and take over the world. Trump actually ''agrees'' with Bannon about the pelican people.

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* ConspiracyTheorist: Steve Bannon, who spews wild conspiracies over the U.S. government being infested with witches or albino pelican people about to rise from Atlantis {{Atlantis}} and take over the world. Trump actually ''agrees'' with Bannon about the pelican people.



* TheFundamentalist: Pence tries to push Christian fundamentalist beliefs whenever he can especially on people who aren't devout Christian conservatives like he is such as little kids at the mall.

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* TheFundamentalist: Pence tries to push Christian fundamentalist beliefs whenever he can especially on people who aren't devout Christian conservatives like he is is, such as little kids at the mall.
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* YesMan: Pence, when near Trump.

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* YesMan: Pence, when near Trump.Pence is usually this to Trump, but he often does try to fight off Trump's abuse.
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* MistakenForBadass: Trump keeps erroneously calling Andrew Jackson a war hero who triumphantly led the United States out of the Civil War, which is completely inaccurate and Jackson asserts he died before the Civil War ever happened, owned hundreds of slaves and massacred/expelled entire Indian tribes. For all these reasons, it's highly unlikely Andrew Jackson would have opposed the Confederacy if he was the President during the Civil War.

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* MistakenForBadass: Trump keeps erroneously calling Andrew Jackson a war hero who triumphantly led the United States out of the Civil War, which is completely inaccurate and Jackson asserts he died before the Civil War ever happened, owned hundreds of slaves and massacred/expelled entire Indian tribes. For all these reasons, it's highly unlikely Andrew Jackson would have opposed the Confederacy if he was the President during the Civil War.
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* {{Bookends}}: The first and last (pre-Xmas) episode of Season 1 has Trump describe himself as "just a sad, lonely man, who's in way over his head". They both also feature Creator/KeithOlbermann as a guest.
* ButtMonkey: Mike Pence is always getting abused in many ways by Trump. Though that doesn't make Pence a very likable person, he actively carries brainwashing agenda.

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* {{Bookends}}: The first and last (pre-Xmas) episode of Season 1 has Trump describe himself as "just a sad, lonely man, who's in way over his head". They both also feature Creator/KeithOlbermann Creator/KeithOlbermann, a critic of Trump in real life, as a guest.
* ButtMonkey: Mike Pence is always getting abused in many ways by Trump. Though that doesn't make Pence a very likable person, he actively carries brainwashing agenda.
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* BlatantRacism: It's implied Donald hates Obama just for being black. Even ''Pence'' thinks Obama is a decent person! (as revealed in the "Good Samaritan" sketch)
--> '''Pence:''' There's a darkness here, some sort of dark presence..
--> '''Trump:''' I'm the president, and the dark one was the last guy!

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* BlatantRacism: It's implied Donald hates Obama just for being black. Even ''Pence'' thinks Obama is a decent person! (as revealed in the "Good Samaritan" sketch)
--> '''Pence:''' There's a darkness here, some sort of dark presence..
--> '''Trump:''' I'm the president, and the dark one was the last guy!



* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Steve Bannon who starts SuddenlyShouting at random times.

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* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Steve Bannon who starts SuddenlyShouting at random times.''very'' questionable things.
** Trump might be this too, if not just a very childish and idiotic misogynist and xenophobe.


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* ConspiracyTheorist: Steve Bannon, who spews wild conspiracies over the U.S. government being infested with witches or albino pelican people about to rise from Atlantis and take over the world. Trump actually ''agrees'' with Bannon about the pelican people.

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