Donald Trump in popular culture

Donald Trump, the 47th and previously 45th president of the United States, has attracted considerable media attention during his career as a celebrity personality, businessman, and politician.

[2][3][4] Trump is alluded to with Maurizio Cattelan's 2016 sculpture America, a fully functioning toilet made of solid gold.

[7] Cuban artist Edel Rodriguez painted a series of anti-Trump artworks for various magazines including Time and Der Spiegel.

The artwork was censored on social media sites, delisted from eBay and refused by galleries in the United States due to security concerns.

It attracted bids of over £100,000 after going on display at Maddox Gallery in Mayfair, London, although the artist was anonymously threatened with legal action.

[11][12] On October 28, 2024, an artwork entitled The Donald J. Trump Enduring Flame was installed in Freedom Plaza, Washington, D.C., United States.

[13][14][15] The approximately 8-foot-tall artwork was a bronze-colored stone column supporting a hand holding a tiki torch referencing the Unite the Right rally.

[25] In the 1986 comic The Man of Steel, the villain Lex Luthor is reimagined as an evil corporate executive, based in part on Trump.

[29][30] For example, following Pepe the Frog's association to the Trump campaign and the alt-right, Matt Furie published a satirical take of his appropriation on The Nib.

The screening went ahead, with the BBC defending the decision and stating that Trump had refused the opportunity to take part in the film.

"[57] Rolling Stone observes that Biff "resides in a palatial penthouse atop a casino, which bears a striking resemblance to the Trump Plaza Hotel".

[60] According to Agence France Press, the movie "paints an unflinching but nuanced portrait of the former US president", charting his "decency being eroded as he learns the dark arts of dealmaking and tastes power".

[77] Andrew Shaffer's satirical book, The Day of the Donald (2016), imagines Trump winning the 2016 presidential election and discusses his second year as America's 45th president.

[82][83] The 2018 poetry collection Sincerity by Carol Ann Duffy, British Poet Laureate, includes a poem entitled "Swearing In".

It begins "Combover ... twitter-rat, tweet-twat, tripe-gob, muckspout", includes the expressions "tie-treader", and "mandrake mymmerkin", and ends "welcome to the White House".

[91][92] Fan fiction includes stories involving My Little Pony, Vince McMahon, SpongeBob SquarePants and Vladimir Putin.

[101] In 2011, rapper Mac Miller released his "Donald Trump" song about rising to Trump-level riches, which became a Billboard hit.

[111] On the March 12, 2007, episode of Monday Night Raw, Trump signed a contract for his "Battle of the Billionaires" WrestleMania match against Vince McMahon.

[112] At WrestleMania 23, he won the right to shave Vince McMahon's hair, after betting that Bobby Lashley would beat Umaga in a match.

"[127][128] Trump has been portrayed on Epic Rap Battles of History four times since 2013, being played by Peter Shukoff once and Lloyd Ahlquist thrice.

On the show, he first battled against Ebenezer Scrooge, and later political opponents Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, and most recently Kamala Harris.

[143][144] Vic Berger, a frequent collaborator for the comedy duo Tim & Eric, created a series of Trump related videos for Super Deluxe.

[148] The President Show, starring Anthony Atamanuik as Trump and Peter Grosz as Mike Pence, debuted on Comedy Central on April 27, 2017.

[150] Trump was portrayed negatively in the anime adaptation of Inuyashiki, played by Bill Fleming, where he dismisses the lives that will be lost from an incoming meteor strike.

[152] Trump is portrayed by Herson Andrade in the Mexican political parody show El Privilegio de Mandar.

"Person, woman, man, camera, TV" is a phrase that then-president Trump used several times during a July 22, 2020, Fox News interview with Marc Siegel, a professor of medicine at New York University.

[177] In 2009, singer Kacey Jones released a song titled "Donald Trump's Hair",[178] which reached #1 on ReverbNation's comedy charts.

[185][186] In 2017, Ronny Jackson, the physician to the president, stated that Trump took daily doses of Propecia, a branded treatment for the prevention of male-pattern hair loss (MPHL).

[187] In Michael Wolff's 2018 book Fire and Fury, Trump's daughter Ivanka Trump allegedly described the mechanics of her father's hair as "an absolutely clean pate – a contained island after scalp-reduction surgery – surrounded by a furry circle of hair around the sides and front, from which all ends are drawn up to meet in the center and then swept back and secured by a stiffening spray", and the color as "[coming] from a product called Just For Men – the longer it was left on, the darker it got.

The light is the worst.In February 2020, an unverified Twitter account called "White House Photos" posted a photograph of the President, in which Trump's face bore a notable tan line; the image depicted the stark contrast between Trump's seemingly orange facial features and the paler skin around the side of his face, and the photograph received widespread attention in the media and on the internet, even inspiring a sketch on Saturday Night Live.