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| | In [[2017]], a '''president''' had recently been elected. [[Bill Potts]] said she would have never have voted for him as he was "[[Orange (colour)|orange]]". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Pyramid at the End of the World (TV story)|The Pyramid at the End of the World]]'') |
| '''Donald Trump''' was an [[American]] politician. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[What She Does Next Will Astound You (novel)|What She Does Next Will Astound You]]'')
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| [[Dara Morgan]], a millionaire businessman from [[Derry]], frequently wined and dined with "the Trumps, [[Bill Gates|Gateses]], de Rothschilds, Gettys and half a dozen more movers and shakers". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Beautiful Chaos (novel)|Beautiful Chaos]]'')
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| In [[August]] [[2016]], [[President of the United States|U.S. President]] [[Barack Obama]] condemned Donald Trump as an unsuitable candidate for president. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Buccaneer (novel)|Buccaneer]]'') In 2016, the British youth considered him to be unstoppable. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[What She Does Next Will Astound You (novel)|What She Does Next Will Astound You]]'')
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| In [[December]] 2016, after discovering that the [[Jezrafeq]] were [[Mind control|controlling the minds]] of most of [[human]]ity, [[Andy Hansen]] jokingly asked [[Erimem]], "You don't think this could explain [[Brexit]] and Donald Trump, do you?". Later, while tracing the source of the mind control signal, Andy suggested that the signal may have been coming from [[Trump Tower]] "because [Donald Trump] and [[Nigel Farage]] want[ed] to piss [Andy] off even more before the year end[ed]". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cliff Richard Saves the World (short story)|Cliff Richard Saves the World]]'')
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| The [[Twelfth Doctor]] mentioned Donald Trump as something that was inevitable wherever there are people, along with sewage, [[smart phone]]s, and the [[Genesis of the Cybermen|creation]] of the [[Cyberman (Mondas)|Cybermen]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'') | |
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| [[File:DonaldTrump.JPG|thumb|Donald Trump appears in ''[[The Lie of the Land (TV story)|The Lie of the Land]]''. ]] | | This president's real world counterpart is [[Donald Trump]], and although the connection has never been made in-universe it is unambiguous and beyond dispute that this is the intent of the line. |
| In [[DWM 503]], [[Steven Moffat]] answered the question, "What does the Doctor make of Donald Trump's decision to run for [[President of the United States]]?" Moffat replied that "although the Doctor normally takes no part in politics, he is disgusted and turbulent with rage" and went on to say that the Doctor has seen a [[parallel universe]] in which Trump won the election and the world was plunged into "certain doom".
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| In the real world, Trump did in fact win the election. However, in the [[Shadow World]] [[2017]], made by [[the Monks]] to resemble the real world almost perfectly, an [[President (Shadow World)|unnamed president]] was a dark haired individual who did not have much physical resemblance to Trump. According to Moffat, [[Extremis (TV story)|this episode]] was written before but [[2016 (production)|filmed]] [[2017 (production)|after]] the 2016 election.<ref>http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2017-05-20/doctor-who-exclusive-steven-moffat-reveals-the-secrets-of-extremis</ref>
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| However, Trump is implied to be the current sitting US President in the following episode, ''[[The Pyramid at the End of the World (TV story)|The Pyramid at the End of the World]]''. Bill notes that the recently elected [[President (The Pyramid at the End of the World)|President]] is "[[orange (colour)|orange]]", and says that she wouldn't have voted for him. Though no explicitly identified in the dialogue, the common sense interpretation is that this refers to Trump.
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| The final episode of the trilogy, ''[[The Lie of the Land (TV story)|The Lie of the Land]]'', features an image of Trump clearly visible on one of the screens inside the room that houses their propaganda machine along with several other prominent contemporary and historical figures. As with the previous episode, he is not named but as the image comes from his time as president it is clearly meant to imply Trump's status as president within the DWU.
| | In [[Extremis (TV story)|the previous episode]], set in a reality created by [[the Monks]] to resemble the real world almost perfectly, an [[President (Shadow World)|unnamed president]] was a dark haired individual who did not have much physical resemblance to Trump. |
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| == Footnotes ==
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| [[Category:Human businesspersons]] | | [[Category:Presidents]] |
| [[Category:US presidents from the real world]] | | [[Category:Humans with unknown names]] |
