Pseudonyms used by Donald Trump

[4] The pseudonym first appeared in a May 7, 1980, article where "John Barron, vice president of Trump Organization" spawned rumors of a $1 billion deal to buy the World Trade Center: "I don't know if it's going to happen or not, but it is a possibility.

[8] Also in 1984, "Barron" gave the press a positive spin on the 1984 collapse of a plan to build Trump Castle in New York.

[9] In 1985, "Barron" urged fellow United States Football League team owners to partially reimburse Trump for a high-priced player.

[11] Some New York editors recalled that "calls from Barron were at points so common that they became a recurring joke on the city desk".

The Washington Post suggested that Trump might have used the pseudonym longer if not for the "lawsuit in which he testified, under oath in 1990, that 'I believe on occasion I used that name.

[1] A 1992 letter to New York magazine signed by "Carolin Gallego" replied to an article by Julie Baumgold.

[16] The name "David Dennison" was used as a pseudonym for Trump by his personal lawyer Michael Cohen in a 2016 pre-election non-disclosure agreement with pornographic film actress Stormy Daniels (born Stephanie Gregory Clifford and identified in the document as Peggy Peterson) regarding her allegation that she and Trump had an extramarital affair in 2006.

A later legal representative of Daniels, Michael Avenatti, later claimed that Davidson was a double agent all along working for Trump and Cohen.

[19] The same pseudonyms were also later used in a similar 2016 pre-election agreement involving payment for the silence of Playboy Playmate model Shera Bechard about an alleged extramarital affair, with a consequent pregnancy and subsequent abortion, between "Dennison" and "Peterson".

[28][29] In season 3, episode 5, of The Good Fight, which airs on Paramount+, a character places a fake call to The Wall Street Journal using the name John Barron.

This is followed by a musical interlude written by Jonathan Coulton and animated by Steve Angel explaining Trump's use of the alias.