The Donald

alternative the Donald

1. informalNickname for Donald Trump.

   The Donald's strange pompadour and Hillary's strange server have eclipsed all the usual primary permutations.

   2015 August 22, Maureen Dowd, “Donald Trump Struts in His Own Pageant”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 22 Aug 2015

1. Alternative letter-case form of The Donald.

   Judging by the way political sex scandals had operated since time immemorial, any seasoned bettor would have sworn that Trump's then-nascent political career was over on Oct. 7, 2016, when The Washington Post published the "Access Hollywood" tape baring the Donald in all his grubbery.

   2024 October 3, Pamela Paul, “Donald Trump, You Lucky Dog”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 Oct 2024

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   And anyway, if you read the fine print, the poll doesn't really mean much, having been culled from a self-selected group of Internet surfers who clicked banner ads displaying Trump's face. But then, such details don't bother the Donald, as he is known to his fans, or Mr. T, as some employees refer to him. In Trump's gilded world of shiny surfaces, few dwell on what lies beneath.

   2011 April 14, Michael Scherer, “Trump's Political Reality Show: Will the Donald Really Run for President?”, in Time, New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Sep 2011

   “Because I think that if I called him, he would answer the phone, and he would come to fix what is wrong,” said a woman who lives high in the vertical Russian colony called Trump Village—erected by the Donald’s father—in Brooklyn, N.Y. […] Now, like many other Trumpophobic Republicans, he [Lindsey Graham] fears that, should the Donald be duly nominated in Cleveland in July and then whipped by Hillary Clinton in November, Republicans will spend the next few decades hanging upside-down in a cave.

   2016 March 2, “How Donald Trump happened”, in Macleans.ca, archived from the original on 03 Mar 2016